The mercantile tradition -- An Ottoman inheritance -- The patriarchal society -- A brief childhood -- The French Mandate and the Great Syrian Revolt -- Marriage, divorce and remarriage -- Syrian independence and the rise of the Ba'ath party -- Early business ventures and politics -- The Lebanon...

Introduction : merchant culture in the material world of eighteenth-century China -- Courting the court -- Furnishing the court -- Collecting as a "collector" -- Luxury and lineage -- Materializing morality -- Conclusion : cultured and cosmopolitan men (tongren) : objects, merchants, and the...

Object of research -- Native language acquisition and foreign language learning -- Using corpus-based online tools for and data-driven text production and learning in business English -- Empirical study -- Discussion of findings and outlook -- Reference list -- Appendix

Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java describes the vanished commercial world of colonial Java. Alexander Claver shows the challenges of a demanding business environment by highlighting trade and finance mechanisms, and the relationships between the participants involved.

Charters, transaction costs, and trust -- The business of trust -- Reputation management -- Reputation, rhetoric, and participation -- Associations in legal thought and practice -- Associations in Late Roman Egypt -- Conclusion

Introduction to the Aztec economic world -- The structure of Mesoamerican economy -- The Mesoamerican marketplace -- Merchants, profit and the Precolumbian world -- Often invisible: domestic entrepreneurs in Mesoamerican commerce -- The professional retail merchants -- Merchant communities and...

Recent legislation and court settlements in the United States allow merchants to use price discounts to steer customers to pay with means of payment that are less costly to merchants. This paper suggests one method of calculating merchants' change in profit associated with giving price discounts...

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